Abstract:In the last years, Model-Driven Development (MDD) approaches have taken an important role in the quality improvement of software products. These approaches perform the automatic compilation of high-abstraction models to generate the final application code. In this way, MDD approaches aim at reducing development costs as well as increasing productivity, portability, interoperability, and ease of software evolution; i.e., achieving higher product quality. A major obstacle for MDD approaches to be massively adopted by industry is their lack of alignment to well-defined quality models for software processes. We advocate that performing a compliance analysis, based on a software process quality model, is the first step to deal with this obstacle. In this paper, we analyze the degree of compliance of an industrially applied MDD approach with the CMMI-DEV quality model. In particular, we determine those characteristics that meet the technical solution process area of CMMI-DEV and identify improvement opportunities to obtain a proper alignment of the MDD approach with this model.